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Tue, 11 Jun 2013 05:42:10 +0000http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/29/site-optimization-checking-loose-links/#comment-1004001Thank you for helping :)
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]]>By: Lorelle VanFossenhttps://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/30/site-optimization-checking-loose-links/#comment-1001868
Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:41:37 +0000http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/29/site-optimization-checking-loose-links/#comment-1001868This was written in 2005, and indeed WordPress has undergone many evolutions in the process. The Manage menu is gone. To view stats, click the sparklines at the top of the admin bar next to your site’s name, or go to the Dashboard Panel > Stats to access the same. 404 Page Not Found Errors are not tracked as well as they were in the early days.

Also, as with many WordPress sites, the date of the post is found within the address of the page in the browser, and in the post meta data area found often at the bottom of the post in the text describing the tags and categories in which the post resides. There are many ways to tell the date of a post. Date does not mean the information isn’t valid. In this case, the information is valid, the access point to track the information has changed.

Bloggers using wordpress.com can track their 404 Page Not Found errors through the Referers tab on your Manage panel. The link on the left shows the incoming source for the link and the link on the right shows the 404 error. Monitor this to keep track of potential page not found errors on your intrasite links.

I think that WordPress must have changed since you wrote this, as I cannot find a ‘Manage panel’, and the ‘refersers’ information offered on the ‘Site Stats’ page does not seem to tally with the advice you give about the links on the left and right.

Which isn’t surprising given the apparent age of this article (the article itself is undated, but its age would seem to be about six years, going by the earlist comment date) — and perhaps serves to illustrate that content rot is as endemic as is linkrot.

]]>By: Lorelle VanFossenhttps://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/30/site-optimization-checking-loose-links/#comment-954686
Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:18:08 +0000http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/29/site-optimization-checking-loose-links/#comment-954686Pages not found are not good for anything, especially visitors. Who cares about page rank when navigation on your site might suck? Seriously. If you have posts you have deleted, time will take care of that with search engines. If you changed custom taxonomies and post types – post types won’t change anything, taxonomies might. Again, let time and a good XML Sitemap (there are a couple of Plugins that generate these automatically for you) will help. If you are running a cache Plugin, clear it. If you changed the name of a post, did you change the slug? If you did, again, time is your friend.

I’ve found all kinds of gimmicks for search engine ranking and such, and again, time is always your friend. Use it. Things will fix themselves automatically with time.

]]>By: Ziyan-Junaideenhttps://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/30/site-optimization-checking-loose-links/#comment-954583
Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:43:16 +0000http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/29/site-optimization-checking-loose-links/#comment-954583I have a problem with my site. I have about a dozen 404s and how bad is it for site rank? Some of them belong to posts that I have deleted. Some of them because of custom taxonomies and post types etc.

What do I do about posts that have been deleted or renamed? I heard about a plugin to monitor changes in slug and re-direct old URL to the new one. Have you come across any thing similar?